AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +8509%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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